Dr. Mara Sanadi Wagner, Psy.D., Cert.Psya.
Contact Information
Personal Statement
My interest in theoretical depth and clinical mastery brought me from psychology to psychoanalysis. I am interested in how the truth can set us free, and in the many areas of life in which this can take place: psychoanalysis, literature, art, music, film…
My mixed cultural background draws my eye to overarching ways to understand human experience that partake of many traditions. I enjoy the kind of learning that can take place within and between people with opening minds.
Program Affiliation
Programs in Psychoanalysis and Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Education
Cert.Psya., Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, 1998
Psy.D., Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, 1985
Research
Echo-location and the dynamics of containment
The uses of fantasy in psychoanalytic research
Publications
(1995) Book Review, Counterresistance: The Therapist's Interference With the Therapeutic Process, Gerald Schoenwolf. Northvale; N.J. Jason Aronson, Inc., 1993, 301 pages. In Modern Psychoanalysis, 1995, vol. 20 no. 20 pp. 118-121.
"The Man Who Mistook His Life For A Map," unpublished research study of the fantasies of a man seeking direction.
Blog Posts
More Movie Analysis: The Lovers
The English Patient
BiRDMAN or THE UNEXPECTED ViRTUE OF iGNORANCE
Presentations
I often present at clinics, college classrooms, and counseling centers. Topics include:
- Engaging difficult patients
- Treating money inside the clinical relationship
- Working with dreams
- Unpacking film and literature
- Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century